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Originally Posted by EricGagne
There's no reason we can't have book stores without physical books. The shelves can be replace by touch screens that you can use to browse the books. It could show the overview and even a sample like we have with Mobipocket. Books would never be misplaced, any book store would have ALL the books available on the market regardless of the size of his shop.
I really don't we why we can't have the best of both worlds, digital books, environmentally friendly reading but without losing the advantages of having knowledgeable people to recommend books and answer our questions.
Save the planet..............stop printing books  |
That's not saving the planet anyway. I'd vote to keep printing books, even when electronic versions are that advanced. Hopefully by then, I'll be able to build a reasonable paper library for myself and use the electronic readers lying face-up on tables as mood lighting.